| say | noun (n.) Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack. |
| | noun (n.) Tried quality; temper; proof. |
| | noun (n.) Essay; trial; attempt. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of silk or satin. |
| | noun (n.) A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth. |
| | verb (v. t.) To try; to assay. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things. |
| | verb (v. t.) To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson. |
| | verb (v. t.) To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles. |
| | verb (v. i.) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply. |
| | verb (v. t.) A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb. |
| | (imp.) Saw. |
| scarf | noun (n.) A cormorant. |
| | noun (n.) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth. |
| | noun (n.) In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece. |
| | noun (n.) A scarf joint. |
| | verb (v. t.) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint. |
| self | noun (n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. |
| | noun (n.) Personification; embodiment. |
| | adjective (a.) Same; particular; very; identical. |
| | adjective (a.) Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored. |
| sheaf | noun (n.) A sheave. |
| | noun (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. |
| | noun (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. |
| | verb (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. |
| snuff | noun (n.) The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff. |
| | noun (n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once. |
| | noun (n.) Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. |
| | verb (v. t.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. |
| | verb (v. t.) To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell. |
| | verb (v. i.) To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense. |
| staff | noun (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. |
| | noun (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. |
| | noun (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff. |
| | noun (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. |
| | noun (n.) The round of a ladder. |
| | noun (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. |
| | noun (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. |
| | noun (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. |
| | noun (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. |
| | noun (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper. |
| | noun (n.) Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster. |
| stuff | noun (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick. |
| | noun (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. |
| | noun (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into. |
| | noun (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey. |
| | noun (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. |
| | noun (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals. |
| | noun (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. |
| | noun (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. |
| | noun (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). |
| | verb (v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. |
| | verb (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. |
| | verb (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber. |
| | verb (v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils. |
| | verb (v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion. |
| | verb (v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash. |
| | verb (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. |
| | verb (v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use. |
| | verb (v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram. |
| sclaff | noun (n.) A slight blow; a slap; a soft fall; also, the accompanying noise. |
| | noun (n.) The stroke made by one who sclaffs. |
| | noun (n.) A thin, solid substance, esp. a thin shoe or slipper. |
| | verb (v. i.) To scuff or shuffle along. |
| | verb (v. i.) To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scrape (the club) on the ground, in a stroke, before hitting the ball; also, to make (a stroke) in that way. |
